【正文】 mother, a distant father, two badly behaved younger siblings, and several snobbish, 14 antagonizing females, she must also overe her own mistaken impressions of Darcy, which initially lead her to reject his proposals of marriage. Her charms are sufficient to keep him interested, fortunately, while she navigates familial and social turmoil. As she gradually es to recognize the nobility of Darcy’s character, she realizes the error of her initial prejudice against him. Jane Eyre: She is both realistic but also possesses a wild imagination, she is decent and sincere, both rational and passionate, innocent, selfconfident but shy and reserved before strangers, outspoken, fearless, ethical, enduring, dynamic but affectionate. Charlotte Bronte gives Jane a character that full of strange contrasts and she really is a plex character. So much that bined with the author39。s experiences she is often regarded as same person with Charlotte, her literary avatar although she always claimed that besides the small plain appearance and her being nevertheless very interesting the similarities with her heroine ended there. Another aspect of hers is that she has in reality a secret self that only those she feels fortable with get to know. For the others she is just a humble governess. Chapter Five A Comparison between the Two Authors Different Attitudes towards Love and Marriage Jane Austen: 15 What is marriage? Since ancient times people are exploring, but none has been to find an answer, it should be said there is no single argument. Indeed, marriage has always been good or bad has a lot of subjective factors. Outsiders seems painful marriage the parties may feel extremely happy, let them, outsiders seem happy marriage, the parties may have made the suffering. Jane Austin, in her Pride and Prejudice give her marriage to demonstrate her views on marriage. She emphasized the economic benefits of the appointment of love and the impact of marriage. Money and love in the achievements of both marital important one and should not care. However, pared to the achievements of marriage for love is more important on some. According to Jane Austen’s works, she was generally in favor of basing a marriage on love. Yet she also recognizes the realities of the nieenth century where women were often faced with poverty if they did not marry. By taking some of her key statements in her works, and paring them with marriage in Pride and Prejudice we can perhaps better understand the reality of marriage in her time, and why people made the decisions they did. Through her fictional characters, Austen demonstrates the many faces of nieenth century marriage. The reasons for getting married were many, but economics played a major role and helped to define the culture of the era. 16 Austen depicts the views of love and marriage in a time that matrimony to a gentleman of wealth was the goal of most women’s lives: ―A lady’s imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.‖7 We can see the importance of marriage from the start of the novel. Its influence over the characters and events of the novel is hinted at in the ironic opening sentence: ―It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.‖8 Through Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays the monly held beliefs about marriage at the time. She does this through her use of characters and their individual views on marriage and love. Society’s view of marriage is evident through the many characters who express moary views of the sacred institution. Charlotte Bronte: Many novels speak of love and indulging in passion, but few speak of the dynamics that actually make a marriage work. Jane Eyre is one of these novels. This is due entirely to Bronte39。s views on marriage and love. The first exception to the traditional couple the reader is shown is Rochester39。s marriage to Bertha. This example shows the consequences of indulging in passion. The opposite side is shown through another unlikely wouldbe couple, Rosamund and St. John. Through this pair, Bronte reveals the consequences of indulging in duty. Another view of marriage is also present in the book, through the character Jane Eyre and her actions. 17 The first example of Bronte39。s view on the role of passion is in Rochester39。s marriage to Bertha. This marriage is based entirely on passion. Rochester does nothing to either restrain or question his passion. Because of his impulsive passion, he entraps himself in an unfulfilling marriage. He thought nothing of his duty and his consequence of this was he bees the pride owner of a marriage based entirely on duty. Through Rochester39。s choices and consequences of those choices, the readers can see that Bronte asserts that marriage decisions based on passion and ignoring the role of duty will bring more than the loss of passion, it will bring an abundance of what you failed to factor into the decision, duty. People have to take care of responsibilities if they want to have fun and happiness later. In case the reader failed to recognize the opportunity the Rochester marriage gives her to see Bronte39。s views, she puts in the book the couldbe St. John marriage. St. John decides not to marry Rosamund Oliver based on his passion for her. He pletely shuns his passion, the opposite extreme of Rochester. In doing this and basing his marriage decision on his duty to God, he looses a genuine chance to gain true happiness. Through this example in Jane Eyre, Bronte is trying to show the readers that the opposite end of the spectrum is also wrong in making a marriage decision. A person will be unhappy if he shuns passion and marriages on duty. All works in no play makes John a dull boy app